30. Complete these sentences with words from the box. Use a dictionary if necessary.

dosage

prescription

allergic to

medication

symptoms

vaccinations

sick note

1. I can't take penicillin; I'm ................................................... it.

2. Before you take those pills, read the label to see what the correct ....................is.

3. I'm going abroad next month so I have to get the necessary ..................... .

4. If you consult a new doctor you should tell him or her if you are already on any…………..................... .

5. Did the doctor give you a ................................................... ? Do you want me to take it to the chemist's for you?

6. I told the doctor my ..................................................., but I don't think she was listening.

7. The doctor gave me a ................................................... for my employer. I was off work for two weeks.

31. Here are four pictures of things to do with health and medicine. Can you match them with the labels?

a) donate blood

b) have physiotherapy

c) get contact lenses

d) have a filling

 32. Read these extracts from a leaflet contained in a packet of headache pills.

Translate into Ukrainian:

If your answer to any of the following questions is YES, then you should tell a doctor or pharmacist before taking these pills.

• Are you pregnant or breastfeeding?

• Are you sensitive to any of the ingredients in these pills?

• Do you suffer from liver, kidney or heart problems?

• Do you suffer from haemophilia [problems with your blood not clotting¹ properly]?

• Are you taking any other medicines -particularly for blood pressure, anticoagulants for thinning the blood, antidepressants, cortico-steroids, anti-epileptic drugs?

• Are you asthmatic?

• Are you suffering from dehydration²?

• Do you suffer from or have you suffered from a stomach ulcer³?

WARNING:

DO NOT EXCEED THE STATED DOSE

Medicines may cause unwanted side effects⁴ in some people. If, after taking this medicine for the first time, you have an asthma attack or bronchiospasm (difficulty in breathing), gastro-intestinal haemorrhage (vomiting of blood or passing of dark, tarry stools⁵), stop taking these pills and consult a doctor or pharmacist.

¹ forming a partly solid lump

² not having enough water in your body

³ painful infected area on the skin or inside your body

⁴ unwanted effects in addition to the intended one

⁵ medical term for (formal) excrement or (informal, childish) pooh

33. Translate the sentences. Learn the medical metaphors:

Problems and bad situations in society or other aspects of people's lives are often talked about as if they were illnesses.

The word symptom is often used when talking about problems in society.

The current spate of car thefts is a symptom of a deeper underlying problem.

This behaviour is symptomatic of his general lack of self-confidence.

The causes of a problem can be diagnosed and the outlook for a situation can also be referred to as the prognosis in the same way as we talk about the prognosis of an illness [how experts expect it to develop].

Here are some other examples of medical metaphors:

an ailing organisation [one that has a lot of problems]. The economy has been ailing for some time, but it is hoped that the new government will improve things.

a rash of burglaries [a number of similar things happening at the same time]

World Cup fever election fever [great excitement]

at fever pitch to reach fever pitch [a point of very high intensity]

With a week to go before Anne's wedding, preparations had reached fever pitch.

Experts in the history of the area take a rather jaundiced view of the likely success of the peace talks. [unenthusiastic or sceptical because of previous bad experiences]

to carry the scars of / be scarred by [be permanently affected by a negative experience]

I'm afraid that children will always be scarred by having experienced war at so young age.